Mark “SpassMeister” Kelly points out an article by the always-interesting Joel Garreau on cell-phone swarming (or what Howard Rheingold calls “smart mobs”). A taste:

This is the precise opposite of a 1962-style “American Graffiti” world. Then you had to go to a place — the strip, the drive-in — to find out what was going on. Now, you find out what’s going on by cell phone, and go to the place where it’s happening.

Mike O’Dell has been psychedelicized by The Technical Web of Sound, a “60’s Psychedelic Radio.” For example, ’twas there that he heard the marvelous tune, “The Gong with the Luminous Nose.” (Mr. O’Dell has confirmed that this was not a mis-typing of “The Bong with the, etc.”)

Paula Hatch-Sato points to the “Engrish” site that displays infelicitous uses of her mother tongue by speakers of her adopted tongue.

Meanwhile, I can’t believe that the local Friendly’s restaurants still have signs up that advertise “Free Sundae with Chicken.”

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